It occurred to me to begin to collect a World Model bibliography of books on my shelves that could have a productive conversation if they were gathered together on a cart, and then I thought there might be discoeries to be made by presenting the shelflist by publication date (see also grouped by birds-of-a-feather affinity):
Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth William Thomas (1956)Spatial organization: The geographer's view of the world Ronald F Abler et al. (1971)
Europe and the People Without History Eric Wolf (1982)
Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 Alfred W Crosby (1993)
Changing the Face of the Earth: Culture, Environment, History Ian G Simmons (1996)
The Human Impact on the Natural Environment Andrew Goudie (2000)
A World-Systems Reader: New Perspectives on Gender, Urbanism, Cultures, Indigenous Peoples, and Ecology Thomas D Hall (2000)
Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World JR McNeill (2001)
Geographies of Global Change: Remapping the World RJ Johnston (2002)
World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction Immanuel Wallerstein (2004)
Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update Donella Meadows (2004)
Environmental Anthropology: A Historical Reader Michael Dove (2007)
Thinking in Systems Donella H Meadows (2008)
An Environmental History of the World: Humankind's Changing Role in the Community of Life Donald Hughes (2010)
In the World Interior of Capital: Towards a Philosophical Theory of Globalization Peter Sloterdijk (2013)
What is Environmental History? J Donald Hughes (2015)
The Great Acceleration: An Environmental History of the Anthropocene since 1945 JR McNeill (2016)
The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision Fritjof Capra and Pier Luigi Luisi (2016)
The Great Derangement: Climate Change and the Unthinkable Amitav Ghosh (2017)
The Atlas of a Changing Climate: Our Evolving Planet Visualized with More Than 100 Maps, Charts, and Infographics Brian Buma (2021)
Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing (2024)
Field Guide to the Patchy Anthropocene: The New Nature Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing et al. (2024)
(there will be more)